That’s right, you are reading the title right. In a delightful twist that has the internet and media buzzing, Time Magazine has chosen You as the Person of The Year. More precisely, they have chosen user generated internet content as it’s Person of The Year.

With the advent of Youtube, Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, and Weblogs, internet users are no longer on the sideline but are the producer, writer, as well as director.

We beat out a Korean Dictator, An Iranian President, an outgoing Secretary of Defense, and even a Pope. Because, if you look at the news in the past year, many of the breaking news did not come from the boob-tube, but rather it came from the internet. Videos of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, The Iraq War, the racial slurs of a Senator, Director, and an Actor were all proliferated through the internet before we even got out of bed.

This, in my opinion, is an excellent and fitting choice. Our goal of inspiring others by inspiring you, has increasing chance of success because of the revolution that is Web 2.0. Six Degrees of Inspiration is probably no longer as wide as Six degrees. The separation has suddenly become smaller. And, I don’t know about you, but I am excited!

Excerpt from Time’s Editor:

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It’s not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.

And so, my dear friends, I congratulate you for being the person of the year. Let us toast to a bright new day, an exciting new world, and a better chance for us to inspire others!